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Is it not obvious that Apple is not paying enough money to politicians to keep them happy; regardless of which side of the fence they sit? After all, politicians in Washington keep putting Apple into the same anti-trust boat as Google, Facebook, and…
Lees meerSo, you like living in Apple’s walled garden ecosystem, right? Let’s say you have a Mac, an iPhone and iPad, maybe even Watch and AirPods. You’re equipped with the best of Apple’s breed, maybe even an card carrying Apple Card user already, a long ti…
Lees meerYou buy and use Apple gear, right? So you should be concerned about the health of the company. After all, who wants to buy products from a company that quickly discontinues them? You know. Like Google. And Samsung. Why then, do we read so many headl…
Lees meerGot malware on your Mac? Yes. Even if it isn’t some nefarious piece of software scouring your Mac for useful information to send back to China or Russia or that nerd Todd down the street, your Mac has malware of some kind. That’s because I put malwa…
Lees meerThere are no statistics to back up my premise that dongles are here to stay forever other than the fact that dongles have been around about forever. Maybe longer. As much as members of the technorati elite politburo criticize Apple for new connector…
Lees meerThanks to Amazon Prime Days anything related to Apple fell on the newsroom floor. Politics never falls that low, so you may be forgiven if you missed the call by Washingtonians for Apple to stop preaching privacy and turn the talk into action. This …
Lees meerHow long do you keep a Mac around before upgrading to a new model? Three years? Five years? Longer? A quick check of the past decade of my Mac purchases indicates that each model lasts about six years, but we get a new Mac every couple of years– the…
Lees meerCensorship bothers me. As a red, white, and blue gun-toting Southerner, a member of the good old U.S. of A., anyone who tells me I cannot do something today that I could do yesterday gets my goat. Yes, the interwebs seems nearly full of danger and v…
Lees meerRoseanne Roseannadanna said it best: Well it just goes to show you, it’s always something; you either got a toenail in your hamburger or toilet paper clinging to your shoe. Siri is like that. Think about what Siri can do and then think about what pr…
Lees meerCan you guess what you do not see more and more these days? Facial recognition scanners. They are growing in number and as much as we want to think new technology can be beneficial to humans, I worry about this one and that makes me think Apple’s ap…
Lees meerYesterday I visited a co-workers office and saw his Mac, iPad, and iPhone all had little pieces of tape covering the camera. Why? Paranoia. Remember the rule. If everyone is out to get you, a little paranoia is the right attitude to have. Now, I kno…
Lees meerLet me give you a handful of useful things to remember about life online in the 21st century. First, “Everybody is out to get your money.” That’s the way a capitalist society works, and despite its Communist roots, China is as capitalist as Apple, F…
Lees meerApple helped to usher in the 4K revolution before the 2K revolution got off the ground– thanks to Apple TV 4K which lets you stream better than ultra high definition video to your 4K HDR television. What does all this mean? Thanks to rapid technolog…
Lees meerUnless you’ve been living under a rock or just got back from an out-of-mind experience then you know Apple finally upgraded the disastrous trash can Mac Pro to an all new cheese grater Mac Pro experience. Hallelujah, right? Uh, not so fast. Look, th…
Lees meerOK. Here’s the deal. You have information. You make information when you go online, when you buy something, when you communicate with others. Who do you want to safeguard that information? Google and Facebook? Apple? Or, the U.S. government? I know,…
Lees meerUnless you go completely off the grid, Unabomber style, and avoid contact with humanity, someone, somewhere, knows something about you and what you do. Google and Facebook and Amazon have already gathered so much information about us individually th…
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